...To be honest, I still feel... strange talking to so many Navis. But, then again, I guess... I've never had any real social experience. I never ventured outside of my mother's home before... until the day my father, Bass, fled.

Mother told me that she and Father knew each other way back. She liked him back then like a brother, yet she giggled from time to time how that simple love grew so much over the years as Mother and Father spent time together. She even told me short stories of how Father was once so bitter from his past betrayal by humans and how he was blinded by his hatred for them. But she, along with the help of friends that she had briefly mentioned, were able to heal and bring my father back. I don't know all the details of my parents' past, though. They would never seem to let me go into this one hallway that's filled with locked doors. I'm guessing it's their personal past that they didn't want to share...

I'm not sure if you all know this, and I know this sounds crazy, but I was basically born inside my mother's mind. Her mind was our home. Mother explained that the isolated cyber world that I was born in was her digitized mental network, which held her memories. She also told me she could never leave that place or else she would die. Father never complained about it, though he and Mother told stories about the outside world. I was curious of what this world was like. I could only see it from my mother's hallways of memories. I saw the world of the humans and the world of the Navis.

There were also times when Father trained me in battling. He told me that battling was one of his favorite hobbies back when he was in the cyber world. Whenever I saw Father show his moves, I always admired how my father was so strong and powerful. I want to be just like him...

Well, about a year ago, we were all walking along a field inside one of my mother's rooms of memories. What are they? Well, I call them "rooms of memories" because when you open the door that's in one of the hallways, you enter a sort of a world or a dimension of my mother's past or recreations of either the real world or the cyber world.

As we were walking along on a trail that was across a flowering field, my father began to convulse and his body started to become bugged. My mother tried to help him, but he pushed her away and snarled that he stay away from her. He seemed to have 2 minds. He said one thing and would say something else, like he was... well, schizophrenic or bipolar. I thought it was quite strange at first, and I thought he was playing around, but this time something was really wrong...

...You're giving me a wide-eyed look and asking if my father actually did play around? Eheheh... He did spend time playing with me when I was young. He was actually funny from time to time. Oh, wait. I'm going off track, sorry...

Anyway, ¾ of Father's body was bugged within seconds. He started attacking us and was destroying parts of Mother's mental cyber network. She and I got injured, and we tried to dodge from Father's attacks. When we were cornered, Mother stood in front of me, protecting me... Mother was about to attack while she had tears in her eyes and injuries all over her body... until Father froze a few feet in front of her. I saw his horrified face. He had these blood-red, glowing eyes that were... wet with tears and his face was contorted in a strange combination of evil, guilt and insane rage... I was scared then, and I didn't know what to do... Time seemed to just hang in the air then, until Father uttered these words in a choked voice:

"Naomi... Banish me from this place... before... I end up... destroying it..."

My mother could only gasp in shock and fear. Father angrily demanded that Mother should get him out of the place before things got worse. His hands that were holding his blade were shaking. It was like he was trying to hold back from attacking, yet he was trying to strike at the same time. Mother reluctantly conceded and opened up a portal that sucked Father in. We haven't seen him since...

A few months later, Mother's cybernetic mental network managed to fully repair itself. Mother then proceeded to tell me that the reason for Father's strange behavior was most likely because of NeoForte, who was once the clone of Father and wreaked havoc on Net City a number of times. She didn't speak much about it and was depressed...

I then offered to look for Father. Mother's eyes widened in surprise and became teary-eyed as she hugged me and said she didn't want to lose me, too. But I told her that I missed Father and that I wanted us to be together again... She then commented that history seems to repeat itself over and over, though I'm not sure what she meant. She then opened up a portal to Net City, saying that Father would most likely be present there.

The first time I saw Net City, I was overwhelmed. I never saw such huge buildings and so many Navis at once. For the next few weeks, I looked around to see if Father was present. I couldn't find him anywhere. I was too afraid to ask the Navis if they saw Father. So, I mostly stayed high on top of buildings, away from other Navis below. Occasionally, I would delete viruses that I encountered. But, I didn't know about the bugged Colonel and Iris copies until I saw them today...

So, I'm guessing Father may still be around in Net City somewhere...

But the question is, where could he be...? ...And is he alright...?